With the feast of the Holy
Trinity, that we celebrated two weeks ago, we concluded the Easter season and
returned to the ordinary time or time of the Church.

Now, the liturgy invites us
to reflect and try to put into practice faith in our everyday lives.

Faith, the relationship
with Jesus must be practiced. It doesn’t make sense; it is a contradiction to
say that we have faith if we are not practitioners.

Faith that does not
manifest itself in the words and actions of everyday life is a dead faith. It
is not faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus is a God of all who act enlightened, guided
and fortified by the presence of God in their hearts.

The readings of this Sunday
remind us that faith is synonymous with trust and that Christians are
messengers of the Good News.

Faith is synonymous with trust.

Believing in God means
living with confidence. In the Gospel of this Sunday Jesus says to his
disciples: "Do not be afraid.” Several times in the Bible, the Word of God
invites us to abandon our fear and to live with confidence.

It is true that in the
world there are many situations and events that can lead to fear. We are not
naive and we know that evil exists around us. But Christians, the baptized,
those who feed on the Body and Blood of Christ, those who received the Spirit
of God, are men and women who see and bring out all that is beautiful and good
in the world. We live with confidence because we know that God is with us and
that evil will not have the last word.

The evil committed by small
groups makes a lot of noise. The love and kindness that exists in the hearts of
many men and women of our world do not make noise but act quietly in our
society and we Christians are witnesses.

Terrorism and all other
diabolical forms of hatred do not scare us. I was very pleased to see millions
and millions of young people gathered in concert a week after the terrorist
attacks in Manchester and London. They sang together: Love, love, love. What
happiness to see that there are millions of young people who believe in love
and who are not afraid to announce to all that love will reign in our world.

We are the messengers of the Good News.

The world needs men and
women like you and me to announce with our words and actions that God is love.
He is in our midst and we are prophets who believe that happiness, peace and
justice will reign in the world when humanity opens the doors of its heart to
the action of the Spirit of God.

Let us not be afraid. Let
us announce to all that God is love and that love is the most powerful weapon
to overcome evil in all its forms.